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GoneFishin
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Interesting Article
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9/25/2012 2:15:36 PM
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/brother-university-tennessee-hoops-star-most-terrifying-8th-211930637.html
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Summer Lover
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Good lord
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9/25/2012 2:19:43 PM
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More proof of "better living through chemistry"... Got to wonder what all is in the (engineered) food that we are eating now.
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MartiniMan
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The bigger they are....
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9/25/2012 5:03:28 PM
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the harder they fall......may not actually apply in this case. If he were a Korean in the Little League World Series I would wonder about his lack of birth certificate. Will be interesting to watch him as he.....gulp.....grows up. One thing for sure, I suspect his football days are numbered. When he starts to play with the 6'1" 220 pound football players his 6'11'' frame (or however tall he finally ends up) will not be such a good thing. But for now I hope he is enjoying that advantage.
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MrHodja
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The bigger they are....(long)
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9/25/2012 9:08:43 PM
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I chuckle at your reference to asking a Korean for a birth certificate. Korean birth certificates don't exist. Instead at the local court house equivalent they maintain family registers. When a child is born to a family, that child's name is entered into his or her family register until they die. At that time their name is crossed off the family register in red ink. (For that reason a Korean considers it bad luck to have their name written in red ink).
While we were in Seoul we adopted a Korean daughter. In Korea the custom is that when a family has a child they can't afford to raise, it is culturally acceptable for that family to abandon the child, either at the doorsteps of a wealthy family or at a church. The thought is that the wealthy family or the church is better able to care for the child than the destitute birth family.
Our daughter was abandoned at a church, in a pair of head-to-toe pajamas, and with a note pinned to them. That note contained the four pieces of information necessary to declare her legally an orphan (if the child's name is ever entered into a family registry that family is responsible for it and the child can never be adopted).
OK, please stick with me....So our daughter was declared an orphan and put up for adoption. My secretary had adopted so when she took her child for a well baby check I went along and let the adoption agency know that we were interested. Time passes, and our daughter is identified as a match comes to live with us at age 19 months. We had heard stories about how the children are weak and sickly, but she was hale and hearty and had obviously been well cared for.
So, on to the birth certificate issue. As an orphan she was listed by the Korean authorities as the first entry on a new family register. We adopted her, and she imigrated one Christmas during our Korean tour of duty when we went to Hawaii (me for business, family for fun). When we returned to Montgomery she was officially naturalized as a US citizen. Problem is that none of this included a birth certificate (and anyone who has raised a child in Alabama knows the need for a BC, especially if the child plays school sports). Had she been born to us in Korea the State Department would have provided one. But we went to the Montgomery County Court House, the State, and even to our Congressman, all to no avail. To this day she has no birth certificate and relies on her Passport as proof of citizenship and age.
I apologize for the long-winded response but our daughter has been and continues to be a true blessing to us, and when MM mentioned Korea and birth certificate in the same sentence it tripped my "tell our story" trigger.
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JohnGalt
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The bigger they are....(long)
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9/25/2012 9:16:07 PM
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Great story thanks for sharing.
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MartiniMan
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Thanks for the story!
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9/25/2012 9:56:59 PM
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And especially thanks for opening your home to adopt a child! The father of one of my Catholic school classmates was the Commissioner of Boys Baseball and he used to tell us funny stories about the "12 year old" Korean boys that were 5'11" tall, weighed 185 pounds and had facial hair. Somehow over time they were able to sort it out but there was no doubt they were 15 to 17 years old. Pretty good teams though!
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MrHodja
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Thanks for the story!
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9/25/2012 10:07:52 PM
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Our daughter is an accomplished soccer player and was in the Alabama Olympic Development Program. They took two teams of 15 and 16 year olds to Holland and Norway to work out with the Dutch National Team coaches, then on to the Norway Cup in Oslo, at that time the biggest youth soccer tournament in the world. My daughter's team took second place in the age group, losing in the finals to a team from Zambia...and that's where the connection to your story comes in...the tallest of our players barely reached the chin of the Zambians......really made one wonder....:>). But, hey, they got to watch the US Women's National Team play the Norwegian National team in an exhibition match...and to this day my daughter has an autographed shoe that Mia Hamm wore in that match.
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GoneFishin
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Thanks for the story!
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9/26/2012 12:06:30 AM
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Hodgie, thanks for sharing such a wonderful story with us.
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lakngulf
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Thanks for the story!
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9/26/2012 12:40:16 PM
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I agree. Thanks for posting. Uplifting
More 'maters for you.....
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